ROS RedBoard Driver

A ROS Noetic driver for the Red Robotics RedBoard+

This is based around Approx Engineering's Redboard Library and is based around ROS Noetic.

Clone this repo in to your catkin/src folder and run catkin_make then source the catkin workspace as usual.

This package implements four nodes:

• Motors: Listens to the /redboard/motors topic for Motor messages and controls m0 and m1. The motor expander board will be added at a future date.
• Servos: Listens to the /redboard/servo topic for Servo messages.
• Expander: Listens to the /redboard/expander topic for Servo messages. This currently connects to an expander port with address 0x40, connections to other expanders to be added at a future date.
• ADC: Published the values from the ADC headers to the /redboard/adc as ADC messages.

Definitions for each of the message types can be found in the msg folder.

You can either run this using the launchfile, customising to your needs, or run the nodes individually. Please note, the PWM expander board address is now set using the expander_address ROS parameter:

roslaunch rosredboard redboard.launch

Thanks!

A big thanks to my Patrons!

Patrons:

Angie & John Neave
Bodger

Supporters:

Adam Gilmore
Bret Colloff
David Shrive

Followers:

Alexander Gutenkunst
Alister Perrott
Andy Batey
Cara S.
Dave Booth
Eva Blake
John Thurmond
Mandy Berry
Phoenix Labs Ltd
Shelagh Lewins